KILLING PIGS AND CALVES

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1932, Page 10

KILLING PIGS AND CALVES

NO LAMBS HANDLED AT PATEA

PIGS KILLED. .BY CONTRACTORS

.“We. are not' hurrying to; fill the works with • ffee labour, though we could,” Mr. '<?. £>• Dickie, chairman of the Patea Fanners’ Freezing Company, told, a News reporter yesterday. All killing at Patea ■is at present being done by the permanent staff and by -contractors. ' \• 1 . •

There is--no-rush in South Taranaki to ship for. t'he- Christmas market this year. With-' the 'market- glutted prices were not encouraging, and with plenty of, fe.ed about •farmers- are keeping their lamb's-’ 'About this-time last year Patea killed a consignment of. lambs, but. so far this year'the only killings.have beenfor the local, niarket. Even if a pre r mium could be Obtained for Christmas lambs South Taranaki graziers, think they can rdake this up dh weight. There is ran- increased - loca|. consumption s of • lamb. ? The .low « prices have stimulated the 4emand and unusually largo numbers .are being killed for this trade. • ' : ... The principal operation at - Patea at present is. the, .killing of pigs. Five ■ men are. being -fully.- employed on a contract ~basis. , Calves for- export and , cattle and sheep are-being killed by ,the permanent staff. ,• -.* • Free labour is-being employed in the manure department. . About .10 free labourers, half, ;qf. ; whom are from Hawera, are working.' .- / , The company is making, no attempt to ship - its" products., ■ Watersiders refused to handle some tallow, and since then everything has been.put into-the works store.' ' The store was entirely cleared by the end of'last .season.,. KAPONGA TALKIE PROGRAMME. Ambrose Applejohn,' in'his .' castle by the Cornish . coast, - molly-coddled by a spinster aunt, and -tantalised by a charming ■ American ward—dongs to prove himself, a man of Action and is 1 advised by his lawyer to sell the ancestral home and set out in- quest of. adventure. -This he has decided to do, when a gang of criminals overruns the place, menaces his life, limb..and property, and -reveals a paper, .apparently yellow with age, which shows him to be the lineal descendant of. “Captain Applejack,” kipg of the pirates. .Thrilled'with the thought, he dreams,’ and while he dreams he is—not .meek Ambrose Applejohn, but fierce Captain Applejack, scourge of the. Seven Seas. “Captain Applejack” will be screened at Kaponga ; to-night. \ .. . ; -